The Worst Way to Leave Your Lover

From the novel, Shameless, I'm reading.

1) Invite your partner of five years to meet you at a trendy gay bar for drinks.
2) Fail to show up.
3) Stood up partner waits around (you have a bad habit of being late) and finally gives up several hours later.
4) When parnter gets home, he reacts in alarm that some of the furniture is missing. He think's he's been burgled until he discovers only your clothes are gone while his are still in the closet.
5) Finally, he finds your note in which you tell him you're dumping him for someone else and you don't love him anymore.

Later, of course, he finds out you've left him for an Italian rent boy.

Reading List

I just finished Doris Kearns Goodwin's wonderful book on Lincoln, "A Team of Rivals." Yes, I'm a Civil War "buff" in general and a Lincoln nut in particular. No, I don't think Lincoln was gay as some have argued.

Since the Goodwin book was lengthy and "serious" (though riveting to me) I decided to read a novel. I just ordered fellow blogger Christopher Scott Sarno's book "The Absence of Space and Time" from Amazon (after checking with my local gay bookstore Lambda Rising to see if they had it. They don't -- sorry, Chris).

While at the bookstore I went ahead and picked up Paul Burston's book, "Shameless."

I also recently read a book by local DC gay writer Alex MacLennan entitled "The Zookeeper," set here at the National Zoo and DC. Metro Weekly did a story on him here. It was a good book, though not exactly a page turner and the ending was a bit ambivalent. I guess life is that way too. But I kind of like things to get wrapped up by novel's end.